Posted on 12/20/2012 2:00:42 AM PST by South40
The National Rifle Association, while staying mostly quiet in the immediate aftermath of the mass shooting in Connecticut, has registered an average of 8,000 new members a day since the tragedy, an NRA source told Fox News.
While this broadly aligns with trends seen after similar incidents in the past, the surge in membership this time is said to dwarf past trends.
The source, based on his access to an internal memo prepared by the organization’s membership division, said both the number of individual contributions to the NRA and their average amount have risen significantly in this period.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Interested in their response to the shooting at tomorrow’s news conference. I’m sure it will spot on.
Then you have BO putting Uncle Joe Biden is in charge of the committee and he’s one of the mental cases that shouldn’t have guns.
What I find interesting....here we are about to fall into the fiscal cliff episode, and this shooting now is issue number one? And the President wants VP Joe to have all the solutions lined up by the end of January? And why not put VP Joe in charge of fiscal cliff negotiations as well?
I believe that with socialistic dumb a$$es in charge “We ain’t seen nuting yet” Just wait until “Big City” folks in dire straights looking for easy money, or drug money as such, along with people whose unemployment has run out, start invading the outlying areas in the country. I wish, hope and pray that I will be proven wrong.
We can assume two things for sure: 1.) plenty of people will be joining for more than 1 year which means more than $35 for many thousands of people which means more than $280,000 per day. We can also be sure that PLENTY of individuals, organizations, and industries are donating extra money to protect their interests. that means it's pretty safe to say that the NRA will have added to their war chest in the next month somewhere in the neighborhood of $75 million dollars to throw at this problem
Did you hear that Republicans and pro-NRA democrats? $75 million dollars. One month.
Hold the line.
We can assume two things for sure: 1.) plenty of people will be joining for more than 1 year which means more than $35 for many thousands of people which means more than $280,000 per day. We can also be sure that PLENTY of individuals, organizations, and industries are donating extra money to protect their interests. that means it's pretty safe to say that the NRA will have added to their war chest in the next month somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 million dollars to throw at this problem
Did you hear that Republicans and pro-NRA democrats? $10 million dollars. One month.
Hold the line.
Edit: I Really wish there was an edit feature around here.
First of all, Joe would simply fall off the edge of the cliff.....
Which is precisely why people in outlying areas(and everywhere else too) should ignore registration, “buy backs”, and confiscatory schemes that are possibly put into law as a result of Newtown.
You new and old members keep an eye on the NRA, my prediction they will send the membership down the river as they have in the past.
I WILL REMAIN A FORMER NRA MEMBER, left in the Clinton era of assault-weapons band.
Then those savages will die... Americans have purchased and cleared all gun store shelves of all semi auto rifles... just call any in your area and see if any black guns are available. Ammunition is now scarce and extremely expensive. 100% price increases in some cases... just in the last 4 days. Anyone wanting a weapon had better get it now... if you can find any on the shelves.
LLS
It’s not the shooting that’s causing people to join the NRA, it’s the left’s response to the shooting that’s causing all the reaction.
Let us hope they are not “Sunshine Patriots.” They need to stay in for the long haul.
Flashback: Sen. Dianne Feinstein Has Conceal Carry Permit
Take a deep breath… it’s going to be okay
December 19, 2012
Grace Kelly starred with Gary Cooper in High Noon, an Academy Award-winning Western about a good-guy veteran marshal who finds that he must face a gang of vicious outlaws alone. Today, good guy gun owners are feeling alone thanks to the vicious mainstream media lobbying hard using fear, emotions and hysteria to achieve civil rights restrictions they so desperately desire.
Photo tiff.net.
(Guns Save Life) – The news has come fast and furious these last few days and if you listen to the mainstream media, you would think the Armageddon is upon us.
A couple of U.S. Senators who were formerly fair-weather pro-gun senators have come out saying it’s time for action on guns, stores stopping the sales of America’s favorite rifle, mainstream TV cancelling gun-related shows, politicians trying to make hay with gun bans and a constant drumbeat of doom and gloom aggressively fed and watered by gun grabbers who were formerly on the ropes.
The tragic deaths of those children and adults at the school in Connecticut hurt us all, as if we’d taken a punch in the gut. What happened to those innocent children, struck down by an evil man-child on powerful psychotropic medications, is a nightmare none of us should have to endure.
The adults lost, some selflessly shielding the children in their care with their own bodies, were good people. Some were tempered with tremendous courage and bravery under fire.
It is our very nature as Americans to work to figure out what happened to prevent something like this from happening again.
People bring their own biases to that analysis. Some blame the tool used, in this case a firearm, ignoring that greater public massacres have taken place with other tools used for evil. Others blame make-believe protection afforded by meaningless signage proclaiming the area “gun free”. Some blame the side-effects of the mood-altering medication, while some seem to believe that having Aspberger Syndrome means the an individual is a soul-less time bomb. Video games, parenting, teasing in school, loss of a prized pet or whether his daddy spanked him as a child may all be components of the evil in the mind of the perpetrator.
None of us needs a PhD to know and understand the killer was an utterly and completely evil man, devoid of decency, compassion or love.
For many in America though, guns are an easy target to blame.
Many people don’t understand how guns work and what they are or are not capable of.
Many people fear guns – often because they know nothing about them or they only read about them being used in the commission of crime.
Just as people blamed witches for misfortune in the Medieval times (into the 1700s in fact), so today do some people blame guns for misfortune.
“If we only banned those handguns,” some say. They ignore the fact that criminals don’t obey laws.
“If guns were banned, we wouldn’t have all these murders!” They ignore history. Weapons were banned for the common man during the Medieval times, yet how many people were slaughtered? The women, the young, the old, the sick and infirm were all subject to the whims of the strongest males around. Governments were tyrannical and while some were benevolent, most were not.
Today, even after last Friday’s events, most Americans still support the right to keep and bear arms. Most support the right of Americans to use and own America’s favorite rifle to protect and defend families and for recreational sport. An overwhelming number of Americans recognize the right to own handguns for personal defense – defense against monsters just like this one in Connecticut.
A great many Americans are voting with their wallets, in fact, buying up guns and ammunition like they are going out of style.
While some stores have practiced appeasement to anti-gun charlatans, most gun sellers have had near-record sales in the last few days, depleting their inventory rapidly. Store shelves are literally being sold bare.
While some public figures seek to curry favor with those advocating gun bans and restrictions, there are plenty others calling for calm, and urging real, pro-self-defense measures to combat this mass public shooting violence.
Emotions are high right now. It’s part of the coping process for grief.
We all briefly denied such a terrible thing could happen when we first heard of it last Friday...
http://www.gunssavelife.com/?p=4088
<= $1,400,000
ought to pay to staff their call center to annoy the new members with constant phone calls, or "surveys" - both begging for more $ for quite some time
There are plenty of other fine groups to support, many of which do not support pro gun dems (as if there is such a thing...most are filthy liars)
dang it - same post - you beat me
Merry Christmas, Amigo!
It’s 1968 all over again.
Back then the NRA had just a few hundred thousand members. Bobby Kennedy got murdered and the anti-gun press went wild. Within just a few months the NRA membership topped one million and climbing.
Here is what Lyndon Johnson said when he signed the 1968 GCA into law.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29197
“Today we begin to disarm the criminal and the careless and the insane. All of our people who are deeply concerned in this country about law and order should hail this day.”
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“If guns are to be kept out of the hands of the criminal, out of the hands of the insane, and out of the hands of the irresponsible, then we just must have licensing. If the criminal with a gun is to be tracked down quickly, then we must have registration in this country.
The voices that blocked these safeguards were not the voices of an aroused nation. They were the voices of a powerful lobby, a gun lobby, that has prevailed for the moment in an election year.”
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